From Jan. 1981 to Dec. 1993, 24 cases of pulmonary hamartoma were experienced sugically at the Department of Thoracic Surgery, College of Medicine, Seoul National University. They consisted of 11 females and 13 males. The age distribution was 24
years
to 71 years with a mean age of 49 years.
They included 3 cases of endobronchial hamartoma, and 21 cases of pulmonary parenchyal hamartoma. Fifty eight percent of patients(14/24) were asymptomatic. One patient had a multiple pulmonary parenchymal hamartoma, and 1 patient also had
combined
lung
cancer. The operative procedures were 9(37.5%) wedge resections, 5(20.8%) lobectomies, 3 (12.5%) enucleations, 3(12.5%) segmental resections, 2(8.3%) bilobectomies, 1(4.2%) lobectomy and segmentectomy, and 1(4.2%) lobectomy, wedge resection, and
enucleation. All of the operative results were excellent and without complication. (Korean J Thoracic Cardiovas Surg 1994; 27:215-20)
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